BANGUED, Abra, June 29(PIA) -- The Japan International Cooperating Agency (JICA) conducted another local health zone meeting here recently to continue its mission to carry out its maternal health care project from the urban areas to the most remote places in Abra.
JICA and its LGU counterparts, the inter-local health zones of Dolores, Lagangilang and San Juan in northern Abra, and the municipalities of Peñarrubia, Pilar and Villaviciosa in southern Abra, are determined to move for zero maternal and child mortality in the province from the fast- growing number of cases in the past years.
JICA Chief Advisor Fude Takayoshi said this project has started in 2012 and will end on February 2017.
In the last four years of project implementation, medical equipment, birthing facilities and doctors were provided to rural health units, said Takayoshi.
They also provided seminars and workshops to the RHU teams to equip them with the necessary knowledge and skills in serving their patients.
The LGUs are very thankful to JICA for its assistance and facility provision that help them deliver quality health services to the people especially pregnant women and children from remote barangays.
“JICA has been a great help to health department here and its legacy will continue even after its termination next year,” said Manuela Munar, Field Consultant of JICA in Abra. (JDP/MTBB- PIA CAR, Abra)
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